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You have capacity for one major growth investment next quarter, but stakeholders are split between a long-term platform capability and several urgent customer- or sales-driven requests. How would you evaluate the tradeoffs, choose what makes the roadmap, and build alignment across product, engineering, design, data, and GTM?
- Glean
- Strategy
- Hard
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